My best guess is “College of Arts and Sciences,” but I’m pretty sure those classes are actually under the COLL heading? So either I’m wrong (I mean, I did literally just register for classes, but I’m an incoming freshman, and I’m ignorant) or it’s just changed since Willis was there.

Okay, so it seems that it most likely stands for “College of Arts and Sciences. At my university, there’s a similar thing, but it’s called the “College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences”. And yes, it is abbreviated as CLASS.

College of arts and sciences.
Collage of arts and sciences.
Collage of artists and sensations.
Colon and the artists that sigh.
Crazy Oprah and her Army of Snakes.
Cookies of Apple Sauce
Common Orphans and the Adult Sacrifices.
Continue Onwards my A-ward Son
Cereal Opinions and Appetite Selections
Clear Opera of Average Snoozing.
Capable Ollie and his Alligator Seth.
Etc.

Googled “Indiana University COAS-S 122”. Got a class site hit. Looks like COAS-S was once the letters for the Communications department, which is now CMLL-C.

COAS-S 122 is (was) Interpersonal Communication. Course description: “Practical consideration of human interaction is explored. Special attention is given to perception, verbal and nonverbal language, and attitudes in dyads and small groups, in face-to-face, digital, or mediated situations. No prerequisites.”

…. researching this made it funnier, rather than killing it. I’m as surprised as anyone.

not I! I took a math minor because I looooooved it, but the classes to get the degree (which I ought to just finish up some day) were significantly harder than those of the much less specific minor. my degree was in french, which was a much easier degree for me than math.

Okay, how the toothache did THAT come to pass? (Not to imply that international stars wouldn’t want to read your comic, but I haven’t seen a lot of instances of them impromptu advertising, well, anything. Did you give him a hundred million dollars?)

What can I say – I don’t trawl around the dumbass corners of the internet (twitter, tumblr, facebook, reddit, ect) and so I haven’t ever encountered that image before, and I don’t assume that people are always lying. Unless they ask me for money; then they are always lying. (This tends to get me into trouble at supermarkets.)

I can see that I’m not the only one who doesn’t recognize that acronym.

I have another question: what is a “horse”? Is that the Earth quadruped with black and white stripes, and unsplit hooves? Or is it the flightless avian with a long neck? You used to use both of those species for land transportation, right?

And by “wood” you’re referring to plant matter acquired by cleaving a deciduous tree apart with an ax or saw, and not using some sort of euphemism that a several million year old sapient robot that transforms into a truck wouldn’t recognize, right?

Re: “wood”. Although the term “wood” can be used as an euphemism for an erect penis of a sexually aroused human male, that was not how I was using the term in the previous post. As you deduced, it was in the sense of harvested plant matter from a deciduous tree.

By the way, evergreen trees are used in regions without deciduous trees or where scarcity means deciduous woods are used for the most crucial functions, leaving softer evergreens for less important functions.

Bamboo, while a member of earth’s grass family, is wood-like in hardness and a remarkably versatile construction material.

Yeah, that’s the general consensus at the bar. Whirl disagrees (no surprise there). He thinks that all of these weird, inexplicable behaviors are related to violence. (That’s not much of a surprise either.) Cyclonus actually agrees with Whirl on that one (which is a monumental surprise, right up there with the outcome of a certain trial). Of course given what happened to Cyclonus on his only visit to your planet…

It drives Ultra Magnus up the wall (figuratively, of course; he doesn’t have magnetic tires like Trailcutter does) when words have multiple definitions. He takes it personally when one or more of the definitions is a colloquialism. Magnus has been known to arrest ‘Bots using slang in their reports.

Anyway, I asked Bluestreak what a “horse” is. He said he’ll schedule showings of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Back to the Future: Part III” so he could point them out.

That would require Billie to have a basic understanding of the chemistry involved in fermentation and distillation. As a metallurgist, most of my work back at the Kimia Station (which has been declassified, now that the war is over) involved analyzing metals on their molecular level, either to find new ways to create stronger alloys (such as for starships hull plating, armor for frontline infantry or for defensive installations), or to study enemy alloys to try to find ways to damage them. That often required me to work in tandem with a weapons engineer like Brainstorm or Ironfist; I may know how to make the periodic table dance at my whim, but I’m not an engineer by any stretch of the imagination.

The skills that let me analyze metal, also allow me to distill energon (and energon substitutes) into engex using the distillery in my bar. Not just anybody can pull that off! By the same token, just because someone drinks alcohol, doesn’t mean that they know how to ferment or distill it. Grapes and other fruit can ferment naturally, or the process can be sped up by adding sugar or yeast. The problem is that adding too much can cause the liquid to ferment too fast and become vinegar rather than wine. Distilling grain or other plants into vodka or scotch is a delicate process that takes time. And beer? Billie can drink an ocean of beer and wouldn’t know how to brew malt properly.

Someone looked it up already and it is a real class – “Communications” which makes Billie’s “..Fuck it all” statement pretty funny. It communicates her feelings pretty well.

Joyce can be rude indeed: poor Billie first Walky, then Danny at the door -for Sal, and now Joyce blows her off.

Oh well. Be like me Billie. Make friends with your computer and you needn’t worry about those pesky old relationships. Or if you can’t, just stop worrying so much what others think about you and live your own damn life.

I don’t see this as Joyce blowing Billie off– not intentionally, at least. More of a well-intentioned suggestion rooted in the idea that doing something productive would be good for self-esteem. (Is that still blowing her off? I’m not so great at face-to-face stuff.)

I’m still trying to figure out what a horse is. We don’t have any on Cybertron. I’d ask Brainstorm, but Rodimus just called him, along with Skids, Nautica, Nightbeat and Chromedome to the med-bay. I figure Rodimus has finally got a lead on Megatron’s scheme and needs them to save the day.

Um, what’s a “Maximal”? I’ve heard of an Autobot named Battle Unicron, a rather devout guy who wielded a kickass battleaxe and could teleport short distances. I think he was assigned to the Autobot Anti-Infiltration unit on a planet named Equestria. I haven’t heard whether he survived the war or not.

So what you’re saying is that “horses” are scouts who wield melee weapons, can teleport short distances, and scramble the sensors of their enemies by pounding the ground?

MAY kill you. If it killed everybody, clandestine zoophilic brothels would not be providing this service. I do not understand how any kind of pleasure is possible, or survivable, for the human bottom, but I guess this is the case. And, yuck.

Maybe there are horse bottoms who tolerate it without kicking. Or they’re drugged. Also, yuck. Hope I won’t be attacked as zoophobic for the yucks.